Be in low spirits

"Nothing happened last night," she said hastily.

He nodded, thinking that it was difficult to talk here because there were so many people. "Why didn't you tell me you were coming to the hospital? I can accompany you." Looking at the needle hole on her hand, he felt a little distressed.

"Need not."

"Has it been on for long? I'll take you home after it's over." He looked at the medicine in the bottle and it seemed that he wouldn't have to wait too long.

"No need." She was very frugal with her words and didn't want to say more to him.

"Of course. You're sick and a girl, it's not safe." He shamelessly accompanied her, and his trousers were almost sparking at the knees.

"I just want to be alone for a while. I'm sick. Can't you let me be alone for a while?" She took off the fan and wanted to cry again.

"Okay, okay, stay alone for a while, I'll wait at the door." Afraid that she would pull out the needle hole on the back of her other hand again, he had to get up, walk to the steps at the door and sit down to wait.

The world finally quieted down. She sighed, covered her face with the fan again, and fell asleep. The nurse woke her up, only to find that the medicine in the drip had been used up. After she pulled out the needle and walked out of the outpatient building, Li Li, holding the packed porridge, saw her coming out and quickly followed her and said, "Are you hungry? I bought porridge."

"Go back, I don't need you to accompany me." She walked to the street and hailed a taxi.

"I'm worried about you going back alone. I'll go back after I send you back." He still wanted to talk to her about what happened last night.

"Just treat last night as a misunderstanding and let's pretend nothing happened. Besides, I'm sick now and if you keep following me like this it will only make me angrier, okay?" She didn't really want to see him and didn't know how to face him after last night.

"Didn't you say you would take responsibility?" He looked at her, wanting her to admit what happened last night.

The taxi stopped, she opened the door and got in, and he followed her.

When she got home, she went straight to her room, closed the door, and lay down to sleep. Kong Jianping and his mother saw Li Li following behind them, and they were both confused.

"Oh, we met in the hospital. I saw that she was sick and was afraid that something might happen to her, so I followed her back. I didn't know if she had eaten or not, so I bought some porridge." He put the porridge on the dining table, looked at the closed door and said, "Since the person has been sent, I will... go back first."

Kong Jianping nodded and said politely, "Sorry to bother you."

After sending the man away, Kong Jianping complained to his wife again: "Look, he locked himself in the room as soon as he came back, and didn't even bother to send the man out first. He has no manners at all."

"How many times do I have to tell you before you remember? She is sick. Don't always be prejudiced against her. How many times did you ask her when she was sick? You didn't even ask her whether she had eaten after she came back. You just keep complaining." Kong's mother took a bowl from the kitchen, poured the porridge into the bowl, and brought it to the room.

He put the porridge on the bedside, patted his daughter, and said, "Haha, you haven't eaten yet, right? How about getting up and having some porridge?"

Kong Zhixi sat up, hugged her mother and started crying. Kong's mother hugged her, patted her back, and said softly: "Don't cry, don't cry, you are wronged, mom knows, is it because of work? At worst, we can just quit, it's just a job, don't cry."

Kong Jianping was watching from the doorway and interrupted, "It's just a minor fever, you shouldn't cry like this, right?"

"Tsk!" Kong's mother rolled her eyes at him, and he had no choice but to shut up.

"Mom, I don't want to drink porridge, I want to eat." She sniffed, wiped away her tears, and said in a crying voice.

Kong Jianping quickly replied: "I'll do it, I'll do it, eat, I'll make it for you, don't let your mother get tired."

In the office of the criminal police team in the morning, Xiao Liu and Xiao Zhao said, "When do you think the boss hooked up with the people from the Second Medical College again?"

"How do you know he must be from the Second Medical University?" Although Xiao Zhao had read the WeChat message, it did not mention his workplace.

"How can it be such a coincidence? The cold sister Kong and her friends are closer to the People's Hospital." He speculated that sister Kong must have failed to catch up, so she hooked up with the people from the Second Hospital. "If my sister-in-law is from the Second Hospital, then I won't have to worry about finding a partner."

"Why don't you go ask the boss?" Xiao Zhao began to encourage him to gossip.

"Hey, Lao Zhao, you've worked with the boss for so many years, isn't there any gossip about him?" Xiao Liu walked up to Lao Zhao again to inquire.

"A little bit. When Captain Li first joined the criminal police team, he had a marriage partner, who was said to be his childhood sweetheart. But the marriage didn't work out and the person died." Old Zhao turned the stool around and said to Xiao Liu.

"Dead? Why?" Xiao Liu became interested.

"I heard from Captain Li's mother that the neighbor was frail and sickly. Captain Li had escorted him to school since he was young. After graduation, he wanted to get married so that he could continue to take care of him, but his parents disagreed. He must have died a few years ago." Old Zhao also heard it from his mother.

"Damn, I didn't expect the boss had such a story. They were childhood sweethearts and loved each other for life and death." The breakfast in Xiao Liu's hand suddenly lost the scent of gossip.

"Given Captain Li's personality, I don't think he likes it very much, otherwise who can stop him?" Old Zhao turned the pen in his hand and said after a little thought.

"I'll go ask around. If the cool and arrogant Sister Kong can't catch up, I can go and give it a try." He picked up the remaining buns on the table and prepared to go to the captain's office.

"Be careful about getting scolded." Lao Zhao reminded him.

"With his cowardly look, he has no chance of becoming a leader, let alone getting one." Xiao Zhao said with disdain.

Li Li was flipping through the case files in his office, thinking about the clues Fu Yan had given him. The sales of banned drugs in the entire city were under the control of the Zhao family.

There was a knock on the door, and he said, "Come in," without even looking up.

Xiao Liu handed over the buns attentively and said angrily, "Boss, I have a question for you."

"Speak." He still didn't look up and continued to flip through the case files.

"Don't be angry." He sat on the stool and said stiffly, "Um... Is my sister-in-law a doctor or a nurse at the Second Hospital?"

Li Li raised his head this time, looked at the person opposite him with scrutiny, and said, "Who told you that your sister-in-law is from the Second Medical College?"

"Last time you...didn't you send me a WeChat message? Wasn't it?" It seemed like there was another misunderstanding.

"What do you want to ask?" He closed the case file.

Xiao Liu looked at him expectantly, "I... just want to ask, is there no hope for you with Sister Kong? Can I...?"

"You dare! No, you're out of your mind! How dare you stare at my people!" He picked up the bun on the table and threw it at him.

"Can you introduce a few doctors from the Second Medical College to me?" He stood up and said in a low voice, holding the buns.

"Get out! What the hell are you thinking about all day long?" He turned on the computer, logged into the system, and prepared to check the Zhao family's household registration information.

Xiao Liu had no choice but to go back. Li Li thought of something and shouted, "Wait a minute!" He stood up, walked to the door, closed it, helped Xiao Liu sit down, and asked, "You... have you ever been in love?"

"Of course. Thinking back to when I was in college... I actually didn't have many girlfriends, hehe." Xiao Liu's tone changed from bold and confident at the beginning to lack of confidence at the end.

"Get lost!" Li Li was furious. He thought he could give him some advice. Looking at the hairpin in the drawer, he felt a little worried.

Kong Zhixi took the auxiliary police to perform duties in the community within the jurisdiction. The auxiliary police was a recent graduate, young, and was preparing to take the police examination. She felt that Kong Zhixi was more familiar with the people in the Criminal Police Brigade, so she wanted to ask her whether it was easy to take the criminal police examination.

"Isn't it hard to pass the test to become a criminal police? There are so many people in police academies every year, and so many people want to be criminal police." She looked at her phone and replied casually.

"Sister, why didn't you take the exam?" The sound of a couple arguing was heard in the community.

"I just want to find a job and wait for death, I don't want to die immediately." She rolled her eyes at him.

The couple upstairs were arguing louder and louder, and a glass bottle was thrown down from the upstairs, breaking on the ground with a "bang". The two hurried upstairs to find the person and asked the auxiliary police to bring the person back to the station. She continued to patrol the community and found a place to eat at noon. When the patrolman came, Li Li was with him. She couldn't help but curse in a low voice: "Fuck!"

The auxiliary police officer found a milk tea shop to sit in, and the two sat face to face in the restaurant.

Li Li took out some cash from his wallet and slapped it on the table, then asked, "What is this?"

"Money." She took a sip of Coke. Could it be that this guy wanted to rely on her?

"What does it mean when you put it on the bedside? Money for prostitution?" He looked serious, as if he was interrogating a suspect.